14 month and I'm clueless

[Jen114]

Hi girls please help me.

I transitioned to 1 nap about 6 weeks ago because of school runs and it didn't make sense what I was doing before. It was going well but I have noticed the last week my ds is so exhausted and many he is only 14 months old please help me tweak routine

It looks like this

615/630 wake up
730 breakfast
12 lunch
13:15 sleep ( after school run)
3/330 wake up
5 dinner
7 bed time

He was sooooooo moans this mornin so far I have done this

630 wake up
730 bfast
10 nap

Now not sure what to do???

[~Karen~]

Sorry just seen this.  How did the day pan out?  He's mostly likely getting OT as it's accumulating from one nap days.  Maybe try a couple of two nap days a week and hopefully this'll keep OT at bay until he's able to handle the one nap days better 

[Truly Blessed]

Hi Hon,

(HUGS) to you. The first thing that screams out at me is that DS A time to nap is 6 hours or so and that is long, especially when having recently transitioned. The recommended A time to start with is 5 hours and even when LO are months older than DS they can find 6 hours hard to handle. However I can see that a shorter A time wouldn't fit in with the school run  . Is there any way DS would start his nap in the car and transfer to cot pr pushchair once you're home. IME the A time is so important. Our DS is 22 months now and has been on 1 nap since 12 months but if he goes 6 hours he wakes up in an awful mood and is way more OT all the way to BT. At least his nap is good. Like Karen rightly said you can try for 2 nap days untill he catches up and then shorten the A time. Don't be suprised if he refuses 2 naps though, it's quite common even when they're OT as his body clock will have clicked into the longer A time by now.

Good Luck Honey 

Vicki.

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[~Emma~]

My LO is 14 months old and we still have a 2 nap day round about once a week to mop up any OT.